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Jim VBWhen ebay thinks they detect a compromise, the first thing they do is go in and change the password. So finding your password changed only shows ebay changed it.
In my case I was on ebay, with my old password, when I got an email that email from ebay. Everything worked fine. Even if I closed ebay and went back in, I had access to everything. (I had checked the box "Keep me signed in for today.") Finally, I logged off and then couldn't get back on because my password had been changed... by ebay. I then had to select the "forgot password" procedure.
About 2 hours before I had also been on ebay, just searching, at the same time my snipe service had logged in and placed a handful of bids. I suspect access from two different IPs, at the same time, triggered something.
Ebay is reluctant to reveal exactly what triggers these alerts because they are afraid it would give too much info to hackers.